iPad 2

[jj]

*groan*
 
On a serious note, I hope the guy makes it. No matter what one thinks about Apple, Jobs is one of the original gangstas who pioneered home computing.

 
I got no ill feeling towards the guy and hope he make a full snd speedy recovery.

[bloodline]

My Fav bit, and don't know if anyone else mentioned it yet as not read through rest of thread.  Was the round of applause for a fucking cable.  Here you go gulible stupid public, HDMI mirror video output, but you will have to buy an extra dongle, what a lod of shit.

Well, no one is forcing you buy some stupid HDMI cable... But I will ask you one question... I have an iPhone 3GS, I can buy this cable can get HDMI output from my phone (should I want it, though I don't), are you able to buy an HDMI output for your current phone?

[nicholas]

*groan*

On a serious note, I hope the guy makes it. No matter what one thinks about Apple, Jobs is one of the original gangstas who pioneered home computing.

Did someone say *cough* stolen Palestinian liver *cough*?

[jj]

Well, no one is forcing you buy some stupid HDMI cable... But I will ask you one question... I have an iPhone 3GS, I can buy this cable can get HDMI output from my phone (should I want it, though I don't), are you able to buy an HDMI output for your current phone?

 
Not HDMI no. My phone has old style comp tv out built in as did my last two nokias and the lead (whichy would work on anything with this sort of tv out) came with the phones.
 
Lotd of Nokias do have HDMI ports on them now.
 
I can also  use blootooth for more than headphones and use my phone as internet tether  But  I am now being a bit of a dick

[Daedalus]

LOL, my Nokia's the same - no HDMI but I can use anyone's old-style camcorder cable in the headphone socket and output video to composite. I can also play my MP3s from the phone over my car stereo via Bluetooth, internet tether with Bluetooth, and use the excellent Salling Clicker (though this might be available for the iPhone too now). What I don't have is the iPhone's slick interface, smooth GUI effects and overall Appleness...

[persia]

I own a couple Android tablets, all I can say is Froyo may be ok on a phone but frankly it comes up lacking on a tablet.  My advice on Android is wait for Honeycomb.

Go to the App store, everything in there will run on an iPad 2.  Go to Android Market, find me a device that will run everything in there.  Lot's of luck trying.

I'm waiting to see it play out but I wouldn't be surprised to see Apple still have over 2/3s of the tablet market.

iPad sold well last year because it was first to market, and there were no viable competitors until late in the year. Pretty much all analysts I've seen expect Apple's sales to be significantly outnumbered by competitor within a year, though they might remain the largest individual player.

Just like Android is easily overtaking iOS as a larger platform despite Apple's lead.

So to say that other tablets don't sell is misleading.

[persia]

I own a couple Android tablets, all I can say is Froyo may be ok on a phone but frankly it comes up lacking on a tablet.  My advice on Android is wait for Honeycomb.

Go to the App store, everything in there will run on an iPad 2.  Go to Android Market, find me a device that will run everything in there.  Lot's of luck trying.

I'm waiting to see it play out but I wouldn't be surprised to see Apple still have over 2/3s of the tablet market a year from now.

iPad sold well last year because it was first to market, and there were no viable competitors until late in the year. Pretty much all analysts I've seen expect Apple's sales to be significantly outnumbered by competitor within a year, though they might remain the largest individual player.

Just like Android is easily overtaking iOS as a larger platform despite Apple's lead.

So to say that other tablets don't sell is misleading.

[AmigaNG]

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:lol:

[vidarh]

I'm waiting to see it play out but I wouldn't be surprised to see Apple still have over 2/3s of the tablet market a year from now.

A year from now, in total units sold, maybe, given the massive head start they have. But they're too expensive and too closed and too limited in terms of different form factors and catering to different customer needs to hold on to their lead in number of new units sold for very long.

[bloodline]

A year from now, in total units sold, maybe, given the massive head start they have. But they're too expensive and too closed and too limited in terms of different form factors and catering to different customer needs to hold on to their lead in number of new units sold for very long.

Too expensive? IPads are the cheapest of the lot!

[TheBilgeRat]

Prevert!

Nice!

meh.  As much as I dislike fanboism (unless its amiga fanboism!), you'd have to be blind to not realize that Apple makes some nice hardware.

[Iggy]

The iPad two must be great, Apple had two self gradulatory videos in one announcement.  And no more one last thing!

Seriously, I'm in full tilt this time, 64Gb, wifi, GSM.  Comes out of my App store earnings...

I'm surprised to see so many posts from people looking forward to this device.
Personally, to me, it looks like a giant iPod or iPhone (without the phone).
Can someone explain to me the attraction of a laptop like device without a real keyboard?
Frankly, The whole thing looks kind of silly. I could see the utility if it were smaller. But right now I'd prefer a laptop.

[dentunes]

I'm surprised to see so many posts from people looking forward to this device.
Personally, to me, it looks like a giant iPod or iPhone (without the phone).
Can someone explain to me the attraction of a laptop like device without a real keyboard?
Frankly, The whole thing looks kind of silly. I could see the utility if it were smaller. But right now I'd prefer a laptop.

Read the whole thread.

[lsmart]

But I have to give them credit that I can as a bedroom coder make enough money to make ends meet because their IPhone/iPad app store...

That´s what Jobs is proud of, and you really have to give him credit for that.

However I personally can´t justify paying Apple 100EUR for a cryptographic key to store my own programs on my own device each year, because I only write about one and a half simple tools during that period. And nobody except myself is ever likely to look at my results. But I love doing that stuff, so I am not doing them on iPhone or iPad anymore.

Apples policy wouldn´t hurt me, if they allowed 3rd party programming environments (think UAE, VICE or even Flash). But unfortunately this goes against their mantra and the target market. And jailbreaking just sucks.

[vidarh]

Too expensive? IPads are the cheapest of the lot!

Nonsense.

Or for a slightly more expensive version

Cheapest at equivalent specs, possibly, but there are a ton of Android pads in the sub-200 pound market.

Most of them are probably of horrible quality, but then again people buy cheap netbooks and flimsy plastic laptops too (me included - my Acer laptop has the same spec as a Macbook that costs 3 times as much, but there's no getting around that the build quality of the Acer is atrocious in comparison, but that's ok, I got what I paid for).

[persia]

@vidarh

Those are 7 inch ARM 11 tablets with minimal specs.  Resistive single touch screens, 256 MB of RAM (which likely means no Honeycomb).

Go out there and find a ten inch capacitive multi-touch dual core ARM8 or ARM9 tablet with 16 GB of storage.  Add a 5 MP rear facing camera and a 1.3 MP front facing one.  The tablet should have a minimum 512 MB of RAM.  Now tell me how much a Chinese knock off is.  We're talking Notion Ink Adam or so.  This is the low end, approx 400 USD.  Don't even ask about name brands.  Apple has set a price point that is aggressive on the iPad 2.  And let's not forget that interface wise Android won't be competitive with iOS until Honeycomb is released.